Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1887-07-01

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sHEpHsRosToWN. WEST VIRGINIA.
Friday, July L, 1857.
UP to the present time there has been
no case of paralysis at Washington. not
withstanding General Fairchild called
so earnes ly for it. Truly, "the mouth
of fools poure,h out foolishness.
THERE was heavy decrease in stocks
on Wall street in New York last Friday,
and a number Of spectators came to
grief. Gamblers in stocks have been
losing a great deal of money recently liz
this country.
Ii is said that the male wasp never
stings--it is the female that conducts
that branch of the business. There is
mighty little consolation in the knowl-
edge of this fact, however. for both sexes
dress exactly alike.
THs Philadelphia people have been
working at Il plan for an elevated rail-
road through the city, and now, just
about the time arrangements were con-
summated, they discover that they don t
want it and the whole thing has been
dropped.
The guileless editor of the West Union
(Ohio) Defender truthfully says: "Since
Cleveland has been President this region
has been blessed with bountiful crops
aud this year is no exception" Thus
another blessing of the administration
is made public.
Now Generals Early and Rosser are
having war through the newspapers.
Rosser says General Early ought to be
hung, and Early retorts By saying that
Rosser is Il consummate ass. We sug-
gest that they postpone hostilities until
cold weather.
JUSTICE sometimes travels with leaden
heels, but she gets there just the same.
For instance, ballot-bOX frauds have
been perpetrated for many years, in Bal
timore and it vas only last Monday that
six guilty judges and clerks were sem
fenced TO the penitentiary.
AFTER a strike of several weeks dura
ton, the Chicago bricklayers have re-
turned to work. It's stated that directly
and indirectly the financial losses caused
by he strike will amount TO two and Il
half million dollars. Strikes come high,
but it seems as though we must have
'em.
ONE of the most brutal prize fights
that has ever disgraced this country was
fought in the Western part of this State
on Sunday last. The officials of that
section will fail sadly liz their duty if
they do not arrest and have convicted
the brutes who violated the laws Of God
and man in that fight.
NOTHING can be more truly enjoyable
these days than to Clay" around the
cool, sequestered hooks that are to be
found so plentifully where the Potomac
winds its romantic way around the cliffs
and wales near Shepherdstown. Oh, ye
city people, why will We suffocate and
gasp for breath when such places are so
near.
IT is stated that Mr.. Robert Garrett
lost a quarter of a million dollars in a
gas deal in Baltimore last week. He
bought stock in large quantities, trying
to get controlling interest in the COM
hany. He failed to get as much as he
wanted, so lie threw all he had on the
market, suffering an immense loss.
Another bitter bit.
The newspapers are telling of a
woman in England who has reached her
one hundredth birthday, and who
"drinks rum and is an inveterate smoker
of tobacco" This is no encouragement
for any one to drink and smoke, though,
for doubtless If she had not been addict
ed TO these vices she would have been at
least 80 years old by this time.
Ii the Grand Army of the Republic
wants to maintain an honorable organi-
cation it should at once kick out of its
ranks the blatant demagogues who are
using it as ladder on which they hope
to climb to political eminence. The G.
A. r. is not intended as party organi-
cation, and it should not be made the
dupe of the political shysters.
IT Is now thought that the war which
has been raging ih Rowan county,